Two New Orleans high school students recently attended a conference where they proved an “impossible” math problem by using trigonometry. For more than 2,000 years, mathematicians worldwide have ...

Two New Orleans-based teenagers have cracked the code of an impossible math problem that hasn’t been discovered for nearly 2,000 years, according to a presentation they gave at a recent mathematics ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, who surprised the math world when they produced innovative solutions to a 2,000-year-old puzzle, wowed the math world again when they presented several new ways of ...

A mix of complex and trigonometric values has pinpointed a long-approximated math problem. The goat problem represents key ways pure math doesn't exactly match the "real world." The secret is complex ...

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In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao's breakthrough is promising, the problem isn't ...

You’re standing at the edge of a cliff, phone in hand, trying to measure the distance to the opposite side – no tape measure, no drone, just your brain. Now what? Trigonometry just became your ...